Apple, is USB allowed now?

https://medium.com/@mronge/apple-is-usb-allowed-now-8da959394e82

by mronge • 12 years ago

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mronge2• 12 years ago

Building streaming video over wireless has been crazy hard. We are happy to answer questions on that and our trials with USB.

babs474• 12 years ago

It's fine if the rules change once in a while but apple should clearly and fairly communicate that to everyone.

Now you have to be a part of some good ol boy club with access to the right backchannels to develop software these days?

duskwuff• 12 years ago

Is this actually intended as a question, or as an advertisement for the product?

mikhailt• 12 years ago

Rant/opinion incoming because I honestly don't know all of the anti-trust rules and such.

I see this as a serious question for Apple because it is entirely their fault that they may have harmed this company from a lot of revenue if they were allowed to use USB like Duet can. I'd suspect Duet wouldn't come out if this company or others can use USB in the first place.

Seriously, while I love Apple, I actually want this company to file a lawsuit against Apple for anti-competition violations. Apple is intentionally allowing one company to succeed based on this sole feature while preventing others from using the same feature.

And no, a legal wall garden or monopoly should not be allowed to favor one company over the rest. It must be equal to everybody or they should be fined severely and/or prevented from doing this again.

cyphunk• 12 years ago

normally i'd ask the same question except that I know that the author only wrote this article because of this post from before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8776877

frugalfirbolg• 12 years ago

Do you have any concerns about doing the research and confirming the market exists for this product and then getting 'Sherlocked'? Did you spend any time evaluating other platforms such as Android? I understand from my own experience how challenging that platform can be, just curious to see if you looked into it as an alternative or hedge.

mronge2• 12 years ago

We didn't evaluate Android as we are long time Mac devs so we knew we could work fastest on iOS and Mac.

We are somewhat concerned about getting sherlocked, but I have no idea what to do about that other than push on!

100k• 12 years ago

Apple's inconsistency about what is and is not allowed in the App Store is one of the most frustrating things about developing for their platform. They should be clear and consistent. It's fine to expand the capabilities of the platform (it seems silly that iOS apps can't use USB), but Apple needs to announce when things that were disallowed are now OK.

poulsbohemian• 12 years ago

Honest question because I don't know either Apple's stand on this or the technical challenges you would have faced: Did you consider bluetooth?

Apple, is USB allowed now?

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